The Damascened Blade
by Cleverly, Barbara
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 1841196762
- ISBN 13
- 9781841196763
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "A JOE SANDILANDS MYSTERY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2003* Publisher: Constable.* Binding and cover condition: Dark Blue (Indigo) cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, single crease to rear board, no other visible faults. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated wrapper showing dagger against decorated background. White title to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, minimal colouration to page edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None* Pages: 287 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: The North-West Frontier, 1910. The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned in a ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat to base the Highlander sets out alone, dagger in hand, to save his fellow officer from the Pathan tribesmen who are slowly torturing him to death. But the bloody outcome of this rescue attempt is not what anybody could have predicted . . .* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. minimal faults reducing it to VG.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5455
- Title
- The Damascened Blade
- Author
- Cleverly, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 1841196762
- ISBN 13
- 9781841196763
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London UK 288
- Date Published
- 2003-09-25
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime, Thrillers & Mystery;
- Size
- 21.8 x 14.5 x 3 cm
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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